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Do you know? To rely on each other’s Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) inspections pertaining to human medicines, the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) have signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) in 1998. However, despite a series of actions and progressive discussions, it was never operational. But the talks which began in 2014 led to revision of Annex in 2017.

Drug development is no cakewalk. Pharmaceutical companies are obliged to prove drug safety and efficacy to Regulatory authorities at every single stage of drug development. Based on the authority’s approval or disapproval only, the companies can further go into later stages of drug development and/or can relook into the entire developmental process.

While researching for an innovative drug/device/cosmetic/food supplement, a huge amount of clinical data is expected to be generated. The conclusions of such data must be clearly reported with an appropriate level of detail to the health authorities (HAs). The information to be reported or documented might be research data, trial descriptions, findings, warnings etc.

The life sciences industry is ever-changing and evolving. It’s the same in the year 2018. A lot of mandatory changes have been made to the regulations, and a lot of guidance documents have been released pertaining to the best Regulatory practices of consumer healthcare, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, which are expected to impact the industry in a positive way.

The advent of internet has fundamentally changed the course of action of almost every industry. Even though internet has been around for a while, it wasn’t until the emergence of Industry 4.0 that the digital transformation started helping the industries to evolve.

The year 2017 was an eventful year for the Regulatory space, with several major happenings taking place across various industries such as: Pharmaceuticals, Biologics, Cosmetics, Medical Devices (MD) etc. While the MD industry witnessed the strengthening of MD regulations across the EU, the cosmetics industry saw advancements in the form of improved guidelines for cosmetic product safety.